While I’m not adverse to that idea, other than contributing a bit on the open source TripleA project on a Mac ocean display issue, I don’t have any experience doing open source work.
Oh, and at what point do you think Macs will overtake PCs? I think that is wishful thinking :)
Yes it is a Windows based application.
Note that the attached screen shot is 199KB, while the attached game file which has every single turn, 5 phases per turn, is only 41 KB.
Not that I’m aware of, though I don’t know all the new cards from the latest set or two.
By the way, are you all using tools yet for your play-by-post or still just doing jpeg dumps? MapView works great for PBEM and PBF plugplug* :-D
Thats is very interesting feedback.
I used to stop by Foruminis way back when, while all three sites (this one, WotC, and Foruminis) were alive an active with minins. At the time it didn’t feel as professional or polished. I had thought the play-by-forum support was a bit rough around the edges, requiring one to capture jpegs and post them, where as here the website accommodated posting .mvf game files and lots of games were being played (though you can’t tell now because they all got deleted). I can’t comment on what Foruminis is like now, it might be different.
I still feel it was mostly the target audience was different, which you stated kind of was well. I personally started with A&A, then played minis, and returned here to post about it. But those starting at the WotC forum playing other games probably went to Foruminis because this site, and the board game, were not familiar.
DO THE DIE ROLLS STACK OR COMBINE? THAT IS: ASSUMING NONE OF THE ATTACKING UNITS ARE DISRUPTED OR DAMAGED… IF I HAVE LET’S SAY AN M1 GARAND UNIT IN ONE HEX AND AND A SHERMAN IN THE SAME OR DIFFERENT HEX AND THEY ARE ATTACKING ONE UNIT (LET’S SAY A PNZER) AND THEY ARE BOTH WITHIN RANGE… CAN I COMBINE ALL OF THE DICE AND JUST ROLL ONCE? OR DO I HAVE TO FOR EACH UNIT THAT IS ATTACKING AS A SEPARATE DIE ROLL
EXAMPLE: M1 GARAND GUY: 1 HEX AWAY GETS 2 DICE AGAINST A VEHICLE, ABRAMSÂ AT 4 HEXES AWAY GET 11 DICE AGAINST A VEHICLE…IS THAT A TOTAL OF 13 DICE?..CAN I ROLL AT ONCE?
Each unit attacks seperately.
What’s with the CAPS?
You can still use the MapView version of the module, works just fine :)
Did you hand-craft these cards? Are these all the revised stats, the ones released roughly when the vehicles got resized?
One thing I noticed is all of the play-by-forum games were delted. Perhaps its a self-cleaning system where old posts are deleted, but that content was gold in showing how to play-by-forum w/ minis.
I thin you are mixing the cause from the effect. Perhaps it comes up firrst BECAUSE it is more active. Google spends millions of dollras each year to make sure their alogorithms acheive just that result…that more popular and relevent sites are rated higher.
It does become a self-fullfilling prophecy, and it would take a concerted effort to change at this point. And I don’t see a minis advocate floating around here that is willing to build content etc to more the needle in the direction of A&A.org.
That’s very interesting. Good for Atti. I considered doing that myself, but MapView is written in a dead language so I didn’t think I’d get much participation with it.
That’s a good questions. I think this site is for A&A players who then tried out minis. They were fun, they are fun, but as an old-school strategy and board gamer, it was hard to sustain the cost of a “collectable” game. Perhaps the crowd at Foruminis is the oppsoite. It might be those who cut their teeth on Magic the Gathering and are used to the collecting model. And certainly if minis was the first exposure to A&A, they may feel overwhelmed by this site. The two branches of the game share a name, but they are not really the same game in any other way. Just my guess. It is too bad, because I loved playing A&A minins, spectating the games on here and discussing the game. I had always hoped that someone would continue to work on the A&A minins MapView support for PBF to include the newer editions when I had to take time off.
Mot
Still confused…do old games get deleted to free up space? The minins play-by-forum had a few dozen non-spam games posted in it a while back…
I’m looking forward to seeing you two go at it. It’s been a while!
Did all of those games get deleted?
Mot
Kind of a shame that interest in A&A minins has dried up…
Im not sure on the tigers armor but if you score 2 hits with one and 1 hit with the other, aslong as you beat its Superior which i believe it has then you kill it, in the 1st scenario, you need to double its base armor, not its armor with superior so i believe a tiger is a 7/6 SA 2 so yes you would kill it in both scenarios.
I’m pretty sure Tigers no longer have “Superior Armour”, but instead now have “Heavy Armour”
Also if you are doing PBEM use mapview not Abattlemap. Abattlemap is horrible. Its a bummer though that there is no mapview AA50 module
6 months late, but if anyone ever needs help putting a module together just let me know.
Mot
